Steve Benen is a producer for 'The Rachel Maddow Show,' the editor of MaddowBlog and an MSNBC political contributor. He's also the bestselling author of 'The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics.'
In late September, as several far-right House Republicans plotted to take down then-House Speaker Kevin McCarthy, The Washington Post reported that the GOP faction was “coalescing around nominating a member of McCarthy’s leadership team, Rep. Tom Emmer , to be the next speaker.” Oddly enough, that plan appears to be on track — though there’s been a staggering amount of dysfunction, partisan strife, and Republican melodrama between that Post report from a month ago and now.
Plan B was House Majority Leader Steve Scalise, but he too faced insurmountable opposition from GOP members and quit after one day. Plan C was House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan, who managed to 200 votes on the House floor, before ultimately failing in the face growing Republican opposition. All of which brings us to Emmer, who can fairly be seen as the party’s Plan D.
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